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Carson Daly explained on Today that he has an unusual tattoo meant to cover up one for an ex.
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The TRL alum has said before that the former girlfriend is actress and singer Jennifer Love Hewitt.
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Daly and the I Know What You Did Last Summer star dated in the late ’90s.
In the late ’90s, MTV’s Carson Daly and I Know What You Did Last Summer star Jennifer Love Hewitt were hotter than baby barrettes. Of course, the tattoo enthusiast got her name inked on his ankle.
But it wasn’t the easiest thing to cover up after their inevitable split, as Daly told Jenna Bush Hager this week on Today.
“I dated another girl who said, ‘That’s gotta go!'” Daly told Hager. “Like, first things first, that name on your ankle’s gotta go. And I was getting a new tattoo in Hell’s Kitchen here — I’d been in the chair for like six hours — and I told my guy, I was like, ‘Oh, my god! I forgot. You’ve gotta just do something with the ex.'”
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Turned out, there was something that the tattoo artist had always wanted to try, so Daly became a test case. And it went… unexpectedly.
“An hour later,” Daly recalled, “I look down, and now I have, it’s a crab claw coming out of a pocket knife.”
He added, “let me say that again,” before repeating the odd description.
“And it’s a cover-up,” Daly emphasized. “It used to have the ex girl’s name.”
While neither Hager nor Daly named his ex, he’s previously said that it’s the Party of Five alum.
He recommended others “don’t put a tattoo on your body that you might want to remove.”
Hager theorized that Daly hadn’t even thought he and the tattoo honoree would break up. “No, I was drunk on the Jersey Shore,” Daly deadpanned.
He hasn’t had to worry about girlfriends for years. The Voice host married Siri Pinter, with whom he has four kids, in 2015.
For her part, Hewitt married fellow actor Brian Hallisay in 2013. They have three children.
Daly and Hewitt remain friendly after an allegedly bad breakup.
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